We are glad to announce that #existdb version 6.4.1 is now released and available on DockerHub, brew, GitHub and Maven Central.

It fixes a couple of small issues and updates key dependencies to their latest compatible versions.

For details you can have a look at the release notes on https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/wiki/blogs/eXist/eXistdb641

Special thanks for the contributions from @nverwer

We plan the next release to start with a 7️⃣

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Learn TEI Publisher - Session 3 of 3

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Learn TEI Publisher - Session 1 of 3

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On our way home from #MarkupUK! We had a great time—inspiring talks, cool ideas, and great conversations. Huge thanks to the organizers for a top-notch event.

See you at #DeclarativeAmsterdam or next year at #XMLPrague! #eXistdb

Hey, fellow XML nerds & tag lovers!

If you happen to be at Markup UK in #London this week, and got questions about eXist-db, want to talk about XQuery, native XML databases, or just rant about trying to force hierarchies into SQL tables?

Juri and Duncan from the eXist-db core team will be in the house! Come say hi — we’d would be happy to talk 💬😄

#MarkupUK #existdb #XQuery #OpenSourceLove

New -slim images for duncdrum/existdb!🚀

Now available for 6.4.0+, these come without stockapps in /exist/autodeploy — perfect for minimal base images or lean XQuery-only setups.

All distroless variants have a -slim twin 🧱

e.g. duncdrum/existdb:6.4.0-nonroot-j8-slim

🔗 https://hub.docker.com/r/duncdrum/existdb/tags?name=-slim

#Docker #existdb #XQuery #FOSS #DevOps

The recording of the talk "Rebuilding and modernizing a large, 20-year-old database of folk poetry with eXist-db and TEI Publisher" by Maria Niku from the Finnish Literature Society is online now. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/t2OjxFdcO14

#digitalhumanities #TEI #TEI_Publisher #eXistdb

Rebuilding and modernizing a large database of folk poetry with eXist-db and TEI Publisher

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Upcoming #eeditiones community event Tuesday, the 6th of Mai at 17:00 CEST: Rebuilding and modernizing a large, 20-year-old database of folk poetry with #eXistdb and @tei_publisher by Maria Niku (The Finnish Literature Society)

The majority of the original folk poetry thus collected was published by the Finnish Literature Society in the first half of the 20th century in in 33 printed volumes, containing some 89 000 Kalevala-metre texts.

Read more: https://www.e-editiones.org/posts/community-event-finnish-folk-poetry-with-eXist-tp/

#digitalhumanities

Rebuilding and modernizing a large, 20-year-old database of folk poetry with eXist-db and TEI Publisher

e-editiones – Society for Scholarly Digital Editions

Hat jemand Erfahrung mit eXist-db und/oder Xquery? Ich suche nach einem Weg iterativ nach einem String in Dokumenten der Datenbank zu suchen und diesen zu ersetzen. #existdb
@_O and Martin Middel sending greetings to #existdb, #fore and @tei_publisher from the always sunny Amsterdam while pushing the boundaries of the internet at Declarative Amsterdam #DA2024 #AMSIX